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Increase in age at onset of rheumatoid arthritis in Japan over a 30 year period

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  • Toru Imanaka aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kanji Shichikawa aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Koji Inoue aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yasunori Shimaoka aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yoshitaka Takenaka aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shigeyuki Wakitani aDepartment of Rheumatology, Shichikawa Arthritis Research Centre, Hisai, Mie, Japan , bDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan, cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka-Minami National Hospital, Kawachi-Nagano, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Dr T Imanaka, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga 520-21, Japan.
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Imanaka T, Shichikawa K, Inoue K, et al
Increase in age at onset of rheumatoid arthritis in Japan over a 30 year period
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 1997;56:313-316.

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  • Accepted February 5, 1997
  • First published May 1, 1997.
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January 09, 2022

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